The SECD machine was introduced by Peter Landin [Landin 1964]. It is an abstract machine for call-by-value.
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Landin, P. J. 1964. ‘The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions’. The Computer Journal 6 (4): 308–20. https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/6.4.308.
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title = {The {Mechanical} {Evaluation} of {Expressions}},
volume = {6},
doi = {10.1093/comjnl/6.4.308},
number = {4},
journal = {The Computer Journal},
author = {Landin, P. J.},
year = {1964},
pages = {308--320}
}